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Downtown a core issue for restaurant owners Dundas Street. Business owners say city leaders need to move on improvements

Shake it, babyLondon’s Dustin Kiefer and his team of Liquid Entertainers take “flair

bartend-ing” to new heights at Onyx Lounge page 4

A nickel for your thoughts?The federal government drops the penny — literally — in a budget that could end up being good for London page 2

Several Dundas Street business owners are growing impatient with what they consider the snail’s pace of making down-

town more viable. “Maybe another four years

from now, things might be fine,” said Kevin Greaves, owner of Jambalaya restaurant (119 Dundas St.). “But at this moment, it’s not working. City officials are moving way too slow.”

Greaves moved his restau-rant from Richmond Row to the downtown core, in part because of plans touted by the city. Now, three years later, he’s still waiting for a transforma-tion. Instead of flourishing,

Jambalaya is floundering, with people loitering at bus stops, “red tape” that prevents him from opening a patio and a parking shortage that keeps regular customers away during big events at the John Labatt Centre.

Right now, Greaves is pin-ning much of his restaurant’s success on being able to open a patio next month. The city de-nied his permit application last year, saying outdoor seating eats up sidewalk space.

Janette MacDonald, head of Downtown London, said she and city officials are nearing a

solution for that problem — a complaint that’s come from many Dundas Street eateries.

“We just need help, and we don’t need to have all these hurdles,” Greaves said. “For a small restaurant, (waiting a year) is a long time.”

Patios are a “magnet” for success at downtown restau-rants, said Long Phan, owner of Tamarine (118 Dundas St.). “People see that and they gravi-tate toward that,” he said.

Opening patios will do little good, though, if buses continue

to operate on Dundas Street, Long said. People waiting for a bus often stand in Tamarine’s doorway, leave the sidewalk lit-tered with cigarette butts and, several times, have damaged the building facade, he said.

The city has considered moving buses off Dundas, but it’s been labelled too costly at this point.

“I understand (money’s tight), but what are they budget-ing for?” Phan said. “That says to me that the heart of the city is not that important.”

Jambalaya owner Kevin Greaves stands outside his restaurant at 119 Dundas St. on Thursday. Greaves and other Dundas Street business owners say they’re concerned the city isn’t moving fast enough on plans to make downtown more alluring to customers. AngelA Mullins/Metro

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Last call?

• Reports on social media say Braise (125 Dundas St.) has closed. Legal notices on the restaurant doors suggest money is owed to the landlord. Braise owner Rob Taylor could not be reached for comment on Thursday.

they’re good as goldlocal heroes tessa virtue and scott moir reclaim the top title at the world figure skating championships page 23

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A penny-pinching Conserva-tive government is loosening the reins on Canada’s busi-ness community in a budget it says will position the coun-try for unbridled commercial opportunity.

With an eye to the long game after years of politically attractive, minority budgets, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is trimming $5.2 billion in annual federal spending — scrapping the money-losing penny in the process — while raising the age of eligibility for old age security to 67 from 65, starting a decade from now.

Thursday’s federal budget, the seventh since Stephen Harper took office, is the first with an overtly pro-trade and resource development bent and a dearth of voter-friendly goodies. A majority mandate will do that for a conservative-

minded prime minister.“We are fiscal conserva-

tives, we are a majority now, the economy is growing — al-beit modestly. ... We’re look-ing to the future,” Flaherty said in the budget lockup Thursday. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Pro-trade. Tories loosen the commercial reins

Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty. SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Going bald so others can make a wishFanshawe College student Meghan Smith, 18, sits still as a hair stylist makes a stripe down the middle of her head at the Go Blue! Go Bald! Head Shave event Thursday in support of Make-A-Wish Foundation. JOHN MATISZ/FOR METRO

Budget could be good for London, economist says

If there’s one hot-button word in the federal budget, it may very well be “pension,” a Lon-don economist said.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s $276-billion spend-ing plan includes gradually upping the age of eligibility for Old Age Security — considered

the backbone of Canada’s pub-lic-pension system — from 65 to 67. The change, proposed to start in 2023, is likely to prompt the most divisive de-bate in the budget’s nearly 500 pages.

“That’s going to be the big-gest fight,” said Ian Skaith, a former professor at Western University and Fanshawe Col-lege.

“Any thought that, ‘I’m not going to get the same Old Age Security as my dad did,’” is go-ing to create nothing less than a “firestorm,” Skaith said.

Overall, the federal budget could be positive for the local economy, said Peter White, president and CEO of the Lon-

don Economic Development Corp.

He said the plan includes several points of good news for the busin ess world, includ-ing research and development dollars, venture capital dol-lars for public-private partner-ships and job-skills training for young people.

What happens in the federal realm is important to London’s economy, White stressed.

“Sometimes people think, ‘Oh well, it’s in Ottawa.’ But, it does impact us along the way,” he said. “Everything that we’ve seen (Thursday) looks like it’s not going to hin-der businesses. In fact, it looks like it could help.”

Initiatives. Support for businesses, economy will have trickle-down eff ect

What they said

Budget quotes from Parliament Hill“We are a moderate, pragmatic government that responds to the facts as they are and not as we might wish them to be.” Finance Minister Jim Flaherty

“I don’t see a message here about jobs and growth.” Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae

“They’re not good managers. They are not going to go at this with a scalpel, they’ll always go at it with a rusty machete. It’s a clear-cut.” NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair

“We’ve been led to believe that this government is capable of providing leadership and mak-ing tough decisions but, if it is, there’s no proof of that in this budget at all.” Gregory Thomas, federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation

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There may still be pennies from heaven, but they won’t be coming from the mint much longer.

The humble one-cent piece is set to disappear from Canadian pockets, a victim of inflation.

Thursday’s federal budget said the Royal Canadian Mint will strike the last of the little coins this fall.

The budget says the cost of minting a penny has risen to 1.6 cents, or $11 million a year. Its purchasing power has fallen to a 20th of its original value.

And so the coin will go the way of the old 25-cent shin-plaster. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Pennies. Minting of one-cent piece to end this fall

Canadian pennies.JONATHAN HAYWARD/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Highlights from the 2012 budget

• Production of the penny to cease this fall, saving an es-timated $11 million a year.

• CBC to lose 10 per cent of annual funding.

• Deficit projected to fall $8.5 billion, to $24.9 billion for 2011-12, to decline to $21.1 billion next year and to disappear by 2015.

• More than $5 billion in cuts to annual federal spending by 2014-15.

• Job cuts: 19,200 federal pos-itions to be eliminated, or 4.8 per cent of the federal workforce.

• Age of eligibility for Old

Age Security and the guar-anteed income supplement to gradually move to 67 from 65, beginning in 2023.

• $5.2 billion over 11 years to renew and refit the Can-adian Coast Guard’s fleet of vessels and helicopters.

• Eligible Canadians to be allowed to defer Old Age Security for a maximum of five years, beginning in 2013, in exchange for higher benefits.

• $1.1 billion in research and development over five years, plus $500 million to encourage venture capital investment by the private sector.

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We asked what you thought about the death of the penny. Here’s what Londoners said:

@JoshAlessandro • • • • •About time!

@maxamilli • • • • •@themetrolondon What will I fill my piggy bank with!?

@CorelChick • • • • •who gets the fractions then? Not every math equation rounds up to 5c #penny #ld-nont

@ldnlksmth • • • • •there are some 14BILLION pen-nies in circulation already, will anyone notice?

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Flair bartending basics

1The Catch. Catch glass bottle on upside down tin can

2The Grab. Let go of tin can; move other tin can in for grab

3The Move. Catch tin can with other one; move over glass

bottle

4The Toss. Toss tin can over shoulder to other hand; repeat

5The Stall. Stall tin cans in one hand, glass bottle in the other

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Ryan Rupert scored three goals and Michael Houser made 35 saves as the London Knights hammered the Windsor Spit-fires 8-3 Thursday to sweep their Ontario Hockey League Western Conference quarter-final series in four games.

Chris Tierney added two goals for the Knights, while Brad Welycka, Greg McKegg and Andreas Anthanasiou also scored.

Rupert opened the scoring in the first period when his cross-crease pass bounced off a Windsor defenceman who was standing in front of the net and past Spitfire netminder Jaroslav Pavelka. The goal was a sign of things to come for Windsor.

Kerby Rychel, Chris Marchese and Michael Clarke replied for the Spitfires, who were outscored 17-7 in the

series and shut out twice by Houser. Knights defenceman Olli Maata appeared to suffer a knee injury after being checked into the boards by Windsor for-ward Hunter Smith. Maata did not return to the game.

Pavelka made 24 saves and could not be faulted on any London goals. Overage net-minder John Cullen, playing in his final OHL game, replaced Pavelka with 11:26 remaining in the third period and made eight saves in a relief effort.

Tyson Teichmann replaced Houser with just under three remaining in the game and al-lowed Clarke’s goal on one of the two shots that he faced.

With the series win, the Knights became the first West-ern Conference team to ad-vance in the post-season. The CAnAdiAn preSS

ohl playoffs. Knights hammer Spitfires to complete the sweep

Alumnus. lindros skates with current Flyers as old wounds continue to healFor one morning, Eric Lindros was one of the guys again.

The former Flyers captain took the ice Thursday to partici-pate in Philadelphia’s morning skate at Air Canada Centre. Not only did he participate in drills, he also took some good-natured ribbing about his conditioning — as sure a sign as any he was part of a pro-sports team again.

The invitation to the skate came directly from Flyers GM Paul Holmgren. It was another sign that the fence has been mended between Lindros and the Flyers organization. The two had an often-turbulent relationship that ended poorly. But he was fully embraced dur-ing the Winter Classic earlier this season and received the loudest ovation from fans dur-ing the alumni game.

Lindros retired in 2007 and

seems at ease with life after hockey, a sport he dominated so thoroughly in junior that he was hailed as the next super-star. Injuries kept him from reaching that, although he did have a tremendous run early in his career with the Flyers, win-ning the Hart Trophy as league MVP in 1995. The CAnAdiAn preSS

Four years ago, with time to spare in between rushes of thirsty customers, local bar-tender Dustin Kiefer decided to take up flair bartending.

After mastering basic jug-gling techniques and managing to work in some visually pleas-ing drink-pouring manoeuvres here and there, the 24-year-old Londoner thought he’d enter competitions.

Fast forward to 2011 and he was ranked 22nd in the world by the Flair Bartenders’ Asso-ciation. Only three Canadians appear higher on the list than Kiefer, who is far from being considered a veteran.

Talk about stumbling upon a hidden talent.

“It’s been a progression,” he said simply.

Kiefer, who is short a front tooth thanks to a glass-related

accident behind the bar one night, fits the part of a trendy bartender perfectly. His 15-pack of tattoos and 1.5-inch spacer earrings blend in with all-black attire, which includes a nifty top hat.

He and friend Matt Biel-mann, 30, are both bar man-agers at one of the Forest City’s newest fine-dining clubs, Onyx Lounge.

They’re also business part-ners, having co-founded Liquid Entertainers, a chic bartending service that launched at the London Winter Bridal Show in late January.

“There’s been a ridiculous response,” Bielmann said of feedback from the debut per-formance.

Together, the pair puts on quite the show, with Bielmann showing the crowd a magic trick or two and Kiefer whirl-ing, spinning and catching bottles at will.

“It adds a whole extra level to an event,” Bielmann said, adding a show from Liquid En-tertainers always includes some fire breathing.

The two bottle-slingers hope momentum gained from a suc-cessful entrance into the Lon-don market will snowball into a niche culture of sorts.

“It would be nice to have lo-cal competitions,” Kiefer said. “At this point in time, though, there just aren’t enough people to hold them.”

how about some fire breathing or juggling with that vodka soda?Flair bartending. After a successful introduction at the London Winter Bridal Show, the Liquid Entertainers have a few plans up their sleeves

Flair bartenders Dustin Kiefer, left, and Matt Bielmann display their aptitudefor the craft inside Onyx Lounge (153 Carling St.) on Thursday afternoon.john matisz/metro

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Latino leadership awards FridayMagazine Latino Media Inc. will hold its fourth leadership awards cere-mony on Friday at 7 p.m. at the London Conven-tion Centre (300 York St.). There are 13 categories designed to recognize people from the Hispanic community who stand out in London. Tickets are $60, available at the Maga-zine Latino offices (10-515 Richmond St.) METRO

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Project Dundas results are inIn response to complaints about “quality-of-life issues” along Dundas Street, police started a six-week enforcement effort in mid-February.

The initiative — meant to combat drugs, prosti-tution and loitering — resulted in 29 criminal arrests, 24 criminal charges, 136 provincial-offence no-tices and eight drug-related charges. METRO

tbk Creative

One London non-profit left in contestThe London Community Resource Centre (LCRC) is the only London non-profit to make the final top 10 in the race to win a $25,000 website and social-media makeover from tbk Creative.

LCRC has been in London for more than 37 years. The non-profit manages more than 600 community garden plots in the city.

Voting will continue until Sunday. METRO

Awarded

Major Facility award for JLCThe John Labatt Centre was named Canada’s 2012 Major Facility of the Year (more than 8,000 capacity) during ceremonies of the Canadian Music and Broadcast Industry Awards last week at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto. The JLC topped the Bell Centre in Montreal; Credit Union Cen-tre in Saskatchewan; Halifax Metro Centre in Halifax; MTS Centre in Winnipeg; Save-On Foods Memorial Centre in

Victoria; ScotiaBank Place in Ottawa; and the Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto.“Londoners love the venue and the crowds keep com-ing to see amazing talent showcased at this amazing facility,” Mayor Joe Fontana said. “Congratulations to the Global Spectrum team for another outstanding year and for all your hard work. You’ve become an important part of our community.” METRO

The John Labatt Centre also won theaward in 2010. file photo

Habitat London breaks ground in 2012

Breaking ground. Daniel Kahn, left, western University’s Habitat executive, Gary Gerard, Fanshawe College co-ordinator of architectural technology, Kerri and Brendon Ronson, house recipients, JeffDuncan, CeO of Habitat London and Phil squire, Habitat London board director. John Matisz/Metro

Kerri Ronson can’t stop smil-ing.

“This house will be our birth-place,” the 46-year-old mother said to a crowd assembled at the official groundbreaking of Habitat for Humanity London’s first project of 2012.

In late July, after 12 years on the organization’s waiting list, the dog groomer and her son Brendon will move into a new home on Edmonton Street.

“I felt like I won the lot-tery,” she said, recalling her initial reaction to hearing they were one of four local families chosen this year. “It’s an amaz-ing opportunity for families like ours.”

Since Brendon, 14, has ce-rebral palsy and uses a wheel-chair, the 45-by-21-foot home

will require a full line of access-ibility features.

It’ll be just the second wheelchair-accessible home built by Habitat London, and first in seven years.

Brendon’s scoliosis makes it difficult for him to sit prop-

erly in their current bathtub, so this Habitat London home will include a walk-in shower — among other helpful amenities.

Both the design and con-struction of the house is headed by a group of Fanshawe College faculty and students.

Habitat London CEO Jeff Duncan said more than 350 volunteers, accumulating “thousands and thousands” of man-hours, will be needed in order to keep the project on schedule.

Three other families in the

area — another in London, one in Woodstock and the last in St. Thomas — have been granted brand new homes in 2012.

Next year, according to Dun-can, the organization plans on doubling its output by produ-cing eight homes.

New home. A vacant lot on Edmonton Street will soon become home for a mother and son. Since the latter suffers from cerebral palsy and scoliosis, it will require wheelchair accessibility

Earth Hour

Schools recognize Earth Hour

• Students and staff across the Thames Valley school district will be taking the Earth Hour challenge Friday and powering off for the planet between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.

• Earth Hour is an annual re-minder to people that the way we use our natural resources

has a direct effect on the planet.

• Although Earth Hour officially takes place at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, schools will observe the event on Friday.

• For the City of London’s Earth Hour plans, visit london.ca.

• More Earth Day on page 8

No word on school closingsOntario can’t say how many schools will close or which areas may be most deeply af-fected under proposed cuts an-nounced in this week’s budget.

Education Minister Laurel Broten says the government is committed to ending subsidies for underused schools, but it will be up to school boards to decide which ones to shut down.

She says using school build-ings effectively requires “an

extensive conversation” and it’s not up to Queen’s Park to make that call.

The province said in its budget Tuesday that class sizes will remain the same but some underutilized schools will be closed and boards will be amal-gamated in sparsely populated areas.

The change, starting in 2013-14, is expected to create annual savings of $70 million. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Regional

students gather for science fairStudents from more than 18 schools across the re-gion will present science projects at the London District Science and Tech-nology Fair starting Friday at Althouse College, home of the faculty of education at Western University.

Ten winners will represent London at the Canada-Wide Science Fair in Charlottetown in May. METRO

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Qualified families

67families currently qualified for a Habitat for Humanity London home

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James Arruda Henry published his autobiographical essays after learning toread and write in his ’90s. jessica hill/the associated press

The Portuguese-born James Arruda Henry had plenty to be proud of as a U.S. lobster-boat captain who managed to build his own house and raise a family. But he kept a secret into his ’90s, one that forced him to bluff his way through life.

Henry was illiterate. He couldn’t even read restaurant menus; he’d wait for some-one else to place an order and get the same food. Most of his family had no idea.

Now he’s 98, and his self-published collection of auto-biographical essays is being read in elementary schools.

In A Fisherman’s Language details his barefoot begin-nings in Portugal, life in a tenement in Rhode Island, boxing as a young man and his adventures at sea.

“I didn’t think it was go-ing to go too far,” Henry said. “I couldn’t read or nothing. I tell you, it makes me a very, very happy man to have people call me and write me letters and stuff like that.”

The book has sold 3,000 copies since its publication in November, and it’s available on Kindle.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Never too late. At age 98, once-illiterate man publishes book of essays

Labour action

Italy faces ‘Viagra strike’Hospital pharmacists are threatening to cut Italians off from their Viagra unless the government amends its plans to reform profes-sions that have high-entry barriers.

Pharmacists will stage a series of labour actions during April, culminating with the so-called “Viagra strike” if their complaints are not redressed.

Hospital pharmacists, part of Italy’s public health-care system, say Premier Mario Monti’s economic liberalization plan is unfair because it gives private pharma-cists preference for new licences. The reform calls for opening 5,000 new pharmacies.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Elephant on the loose

Don’t put Baby in the bathAn elephant called Baby did not want a bath.

Instead, the 40-year-old elephant bolted from a circus in southern Ireland on Tuesday, causing some alarm to customers in a coffee shop where keep-ers caught up with the runaway.

No one was injured, but a video shot from a nearby office showed that the keepers had trouble keeping up with Baby as he headed away from the coffee shop in Blackpool in County Cork.

Egle Vilmaite, manager of the Costa Coffee shop, told Ireland’s RTE News: “He was running around on his own and then you could see the guys from the circus running around, and the elephant wasn’t happy.”THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A full-scale replica of the prehistoric snake Titanoboa swallowing a crocodile is previewed at Grand Central Station in New York. BeBeto Matthews/the associated Press

Exhibit features replica of world’s largest snake

A prehistoric monster snake the length of a school bus that likely fed on supersize turtles and crocodiles has made its way to the Smith-sonian Institution for an ex-hibit opening Friday.

The National Museum of Natural History is featuring a life-size replica of Titanoboa along with a cast of its large vertebrae through January 2013. When it was alive, the

snake averaged 48-feet long.Fossils from the world’s

largest snake were first dis-covered in 2004 in a coal mine in Colombia that once was a rainforest. Eventually bones

from at least 60 of the monster snakes were uncovered.

At first scientists labelled the fossils as being vertebrae from a crocodile, but a gradu-ate student noticed there was a difference.

A student interning with the Smithsonian eventually discovered the snake’s skull. The specimen broke the pre-vious record for snake length by 11 feet.

Scientists figure the snake weighed about 2,500 pounds. It was found near fossilized plants, giant turtles the size of a kitchen table and other crea-tures dating to more than 60 million years ago in the Paleo-cene era after the dinosaurs.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Monster snake. Prehistoric Titanoboa was the length of a bus and weighed about 2,500 pounds

Titanoboa

Titanoboa is related to modern boa constrictors and anacondas.

• Scientistssayitwastheworld’slargestpredatorandlargeenoughtoeasilyeatacoworahuman. It likely fed on large turtles or crocodiles while spending most of its time in water.


This year marks the fifth an-niversary of Earth Hour in Canada, on Saturday, March 31, 2012 from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Earth Hour is a time where the world unites by turning off their lights to send a mes-sage in support of action on climate change.

Participants see it as an opportunity to hunker in and play board games, or go out to one of many restaurants that serve dinner by candlelight.

135 countries and more than 5,200 cities participated in Earth Hour in 2011.

Last year, 43 per cent of Canadians turned off their lights in support of Earth Hour — almost 15 million people — across 427 cities

To find out about Earth Hour in Canada, visit wwf.ca/EarthHour. For Earth Hour globally, visit earthhour.org. metro

Earth hour. People in 135 countries will put aside an hour to support the planet

Lighting a candle for the earth’s future

Everywhere

• Lightsoutinspace. In 2012, for the first time, Earth Hour will reach the International Space Station.

• World’slargest. Within four years, Earth Hour has reached more than 1.8 billion people in 135 countries across every continent, making it the world’s largest campaign for the planet.

Canadians will find lots of ways to rediscover the dark.kristen thompson/metro file

Tuition hike

students stage mock hanging of premier One day after student dem-onstrators marched on Jean Charest’s family property, they staged a mock hanging and burned down an effigy of the Quebec premier dur-

Jury finds Stobbe not guilty in wife’s hatchet killing

Mark Stobbe talks to media outside the Law Courts in Winnipeg on Thursdayafter a jury found him not guilty in the second-degree murder of his wife.Trevor Hagan/THe Canadian Press

Minutes after being found not guilty in the brutal killing of his wife, former political adviser Mark Stobbe told reporters he would like to know who the killer was, but it’s not his task to find out.

“I’ve heard the judge say on many occasions that that isn’t my job. It’s not something I can speculate on,” Stobbe, 53, said outside court. “Of course, I want to know.”

Stobbe added he now wants to focus on raising his two teenaged sons.

“I’m very proud of my sons. I know their mother would be too.”

Winnipeg. Former political advisor says he will focus on raising sons after being exonerated in wife’s murder

Polar bear surprise visit Louis Reardon, 55, got the shock of his life early Thursday when he leapt out of bed to his son’s cries of “Polar bear!” as a large male bear broke into their home in northern Newfoundland.

“He had the door busted open to the din-ing room with his two front paws and his head in through the door,” Reardon said from tiny Goose Cove, just south of St. Anthony, N.L.

“I mean, it frightened the wits right clean out of me, to be that close to a polar bear.”

Reardon’s son Damien, 29, had heard a ruckus and flicked on the light to discover the animal. Polar bears are notoriously ag-gressive when cornered, and Damien slammed on a table trying to frighten the intruder as his father raced for a shotgun.

“A polar bear doesn’t usually back down,” Reardon said. “If he came in the house, God knows what he would have done before he went out.” the Canadian PreSS

After two days of delibera-tions, a 12-member jury found Stobbe not guilty of second-degree murder Thursday in the death of his wife, Beverly Rowbotham. Her bludgeoned body was found in her car 15 kilometres away from the couple’s home in St. Andrew’s, Man., in the early hours of Oct. 25, 2000.

When the verdict was read in a Winnipeg courtroom,

Stobbe let out what sounded like a sigh, leaned forward and put his head down on one arm that was resting on the edge of the prisoner’s box.

When he looked up again, his face was flush with emotion.

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The Derouchie’s and four other couples won up to three fertility treat-ments valued at $35,000 in October. Joe LoFaro/For metro

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Poland

Official dismisses assassination claimsPoland’s top prosecutor says there is no evidence to support theories that a 2010 plane crash that killed

President Lech Kaczynski was an assassination.

Prosecutor general Andrzej Seremet was reacting Thursday to com-ments made by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, a conservative party leader, who suggested the plane crash was inten-tional. the associated press

political unrest. african presidents forced by rebels to divert flightFive African presidents seek-ing to restore Mali’s elected government were forced to make a mid-air U-turn and head to Ivory Coast to hold their meeting, after dem-onstrators supporting the military junta took over the tarmac to stop the jets from landing, officials said.

The presidents of Ivory Coast, Benin, Liberia, Niger and Burkina Faso were due to arrive in Mali on Thursday to press for the departure of the junior officers that grabbed power in a coup last week, reversing over two decades of democratic rule in this land-locked nation south of the Sahara.

The planes carrying the presidents landed in the cap-

ital of Ivory Coast, where they went ahead with their meet-ing, officials said. the associated press

What happened?

Last week’s coup happened in one of the few estab-lished democracies in the troubled western half of the African continent.

• Newleader. Sanogo, who is in his 30s, seized power from President Amadou Toumani Toure, who is considered one of Africa’s senior statesman, and was just months from stepping down.

In this image taken from video at the Sanford, Fla., police department, George Zimmerman, in red jacket, is escorted into the Sanford police stationin handcuffs on Feb. 26, 2012 , the night he fatally shot Trayvon Martin.Martin FaMily/the associated press

security video adds to debate over teen’s death

A security video that shows neighbourhood-watch cap-tain George Zimmerman be-ing led in handcuffs from a police car after he fatally shot Trayvon Martin is adding to the debate over whether the shooting was a case of self-defence.

An attorney for the teen’s family said it looks to him that Zimmerman doesn’t have injuries to his face and head in the video as Zimmer-man’s supporters have said.

Zimmerman told police he fired in self-defence and he was not arrested, touching off widespread public outrage and protests across the coun-try. Zimmerman’s attorney, Craig Sonner, has said in more than one interview that

Florida. Footage of George Zimmerman in handcuffs has Trayvon Martin supporters questioning official story again

Supporters

Martin’s supporters, includ-ing a host of outspoken celebrities and civil-rights leaders who have appeared on television for the past two weeks, don’t believe Zimmerman’s story. They want him arrested and prosecuted.

• Forced into hiding. Since the shooting, Zimmer-man’s supporters say he’s gone into hiding and that he and his family have gotten death threats.

his client’s nose was broken during the fight with Martin.

Sanford police Sgt. David Morgenstern on Wednesday confirmed that the video be-ing shown by ABC News is of Zimmerman. The 28-year-old’s head and face are visible

throughout and he is dressed in a red and black fleece jack-et. Police are shown frisking Zimmerman, whose hands were handcuffed behind his back. They then lead him into a police station.

“This certainly doesn’t

look like a man who police said had his nose broken and his head repeatedly smashed into the sidewalk,” Ben Crump, an attorney for Mar-tin’s family, said in a state-ment. “George Zimmerman has no apparent injuries in this video, which dramatic-ally contradicts his version of the events of February 26.”the associated press

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Hear democracy roar: Opposition activists in Rangoon. getty

Waiting on the Burmese Spring

Win Tin thought he’d never

see this day. For 19 years he was imprisoned and tortured for his pro-democracy activ-ism. But now Tin, a leader of Aung San Suu Kyi’s NLD party, lives in freedom. And NLD is expected to win parliamentary seats in an election on April 1.

“This election is very im-portant to us,” Tin tells Metro. “If you look at the figures, a byelection that only includes seven per cent of the parlia-mentary seats isn’t very im-portant. But we’ll finally be in parliament, and we can do a lot

by co-operating with other par-liamentarians, if they’re not too afraid.”

NLD won Myanmar’s 1990 election, but the country’s repressive military rulers can-celled it and jailed Suu Kyi. International observers called the 2010 election a sham, and opposition leader Suu Kyi boy-cotted it.

In the past year, the gener-als have introduced extraordin-ary reforms. They’ve freed 200 political prisoners, introduced labour laws that allow for

unions and strikes, and re-laxed censorship. This winter Myanmar’s minister of indus-try, Soe Thane, even attended the World Economic Forum in Davos.

“Those who have held the power over the past decade still hold it,” explains Jan Za-lewski, a Myanmar analyst at IHS Global Insight. “But the re-forms do one important thing for the government: They pro-vide it with legitimacy.”

Suu Kyi will almost certain-ly be elected to one of the 48 seats to be filled in the byelec-tion. “The significant thing is she’s running,” says Aye Chan Naing, Executive Director of Democratic Voice of Burma, an exile organization. “She’s still an icon. Wherever she goes, she attracts hundreds of thou-sands of people.”

And this time the junta isn’t preventing Suu Kyi from cam-paigning. It has even broad-cast one of her speeches on TV. That’s because the regime wants her to win. “And even if Suu Kyi’s NLD party wins all 48 seats, this would not change the balance of power in parliament,” notes Zalewski. “The legitimacy the regime has

Winds of change. On April 1, Burma holds elections that Nobel Prize-winning dissident Aung San Suu Kyi’s party is expected to win

“It used to be that I was al-ways shadowed in Burma,” says Aye Chan Naing. “Now all of that is gone. And jour-nalists are able to write about many more topics, though sometimes they tell me that the authorities have ordered a story to be cancelled or cut.”

But Myanmar’s cit-izens have more basic concerns as well: They’re desperately poor. With a GDP per

capita of $1,300, Myan-mar ranks 205th in

the world, below countries like

Burkina Faso. The plight of the impover-ished majority stands in stark contrast to the opulence of the ruling

military, which exploits the country’s natural re-sources and is accused of using a privatization scheme to further enrich itself. MWN

Basic concerns. Everyday life in Myanmar

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Junta seeking alliesProf. Sean Turnell, Macquarie University, Australia, author of Fiery Dragons: Banks, Moneylenders and Microfinance in Burma

What’s behind the gen-erals’ reforms?Some of them realize that their country has fallen behind. Right after World War II, Thailand was poorer than Burma. Now it’s five times rich-er. And the junta worries about being dominated by China, so it’s seeking new allies.

In addition, the junta hopes the reforms will convince the internation-al community (to) end the sanctions.

How much are ordinary citizens seeing of the reforms?What they’re noticing is newspapers actually reporting news, not government propa-ganda. And, of course, what they’ve noticed is a host of international businessmen suddenly descending on Rangoon.

But the economic re-forms are lagging behind the political ones. And the reforms are taking place in cities rather than the countryside, where most Burmese live.ElizaBEth BraW/MWN

Formidable opponent

Protesting monksAlong with Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s monks have been the junta’s most formidable opponent. In 2007, the junta brutally crushed the monks’ Saf-fron Revolution. But ear-lier this year, 31-year-old monk leader Shin Gam-bira, who was sentenced to 68 years in prison after the uprising, was released. The junta has told Burma’s approximately 400,000 monks and 50,000 nuns not to get involved in the election campaign. MWN

Prof. sean Turnell

On power and fear

“It is not power that cor-rupts but fear.

Fear of losing power cor-rupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”Aung san suu Kyi, opposition leader

Co-operation urged

“we’ll finally be in parliament, and we can do a lot by co-operating with other parlia men-tarians, if they’re not too afraid.”win Tin, a leader of nLD party

gained from its reforms would be increased indefinitely if Suu Kyi and other NLD members were elected to parliament.” The big question now is wheth-er Suu Kyi will recover after taking ill, apparently from ex-haustion, several days ago.

Paradoxically, a free and fair election could put Suu Kyi in a bind: Her participation is seen as approval for the re-gime. “But we have clear goals of what we want to accomplish in parliament,” says Win Tin. “Establish the rule of law, end armed conflicts and change the constitution. We know it’s not easy, and it will take time. But our main worry is that the military will undo the re-forms.”

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Panic at the pumpsDrivers line up for fuel on Thursday in st. Austell, england. A suggestion by government ministers that drivers should store gas in cans at home appeared to ignite an impulse buying of fuel. Matt Cardy/Getty IMaGes

Communications

Rogers laying off 300 employeesRogers Communications says it is laying off about 300 employees across its operations.

Company spokes-woman Patricia Trott says the cuts are focused on management and head-office positions. Employees were notified on Wednesday.the canadian press

research in Motion. Former ceO Jim Balsillie resigns from boardResearch in Motion says for-mer co-CEO Jim Balsillie, the hockey-loving executive who for years helped build the BlackBerry into a global force in the smartphone industry, has resigned from the board.

The announcement, sym-bolic of the changes afoot at Canada’s reigning technology leader, came along with a finan-cial report that fell short of ana-lysts’ already low expectations.

The company announced from its headquarters in Wat-erloo, Ont., that it had a loss in the final quarter of its 2011 financial year, rather than the profit that had been expected, as a result of writing down some of its assets.

Sales of the BlackBerry were also below many analysts’ expectations. The company, which usually provides guid-ance about where it expects revenue and profit will be in the near future, said it was dis-continuing that practice.

Research In Motion also said it is undertaking a strategic review of its alternatives — a term that can sometimes mean major changes for a company, such as a sale or merger — a process that has essentially

been under way for months.Balsillie — who had been

co-chief executive of RIM along with company founder Mike Lazaridis until they stepped aside in January — had become one of Canada’s best-known businessmen.

“As I complete my retire-ment from RIM, I’m grateful for this remarkable experi-ence and for the opportun-ity to have worked with out-standing professionals who helped turn a Canadian idea into a global success,” Balsil-lie said in a statement.the canadian press

Quarterly results

• RIM reported Thursday a loss for its latest quarter of $125 million US, or 24 cents per share, as it took a $355-million charge to goodwill.

• The loss compared with a profit of $934 million, or $1.78 per diluted share, a year ago. Revenue fell to $4.2 billion, down from $5.6 billion.

By the numbers

Metro now reaching 1.5M daily readers: NADBank Sharing quality news for free, at the right time, in the right place and in the right format continues to be the recipe for success at Metro, which grew in all seven markets in which it was measured, according to results released Thursday by the Newspaper Audience Databank (NADbank).

Metro Canada now reaches 1,492,700 daily and 3,388,900 weekly readers coast to coast in Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. In comparison to NADbank 2010 results, this represents an increase of 129,700, or 10 per cent, more daily readers and 372,100, or 11 per cent, more weekly readers.

“The NADbank results confirm Metro’s leadership as the daily newspaper of choice for YAMs (youthful, active metropolitans),” says Bill McDonald, president and publisher of Metro English Canada. MetrO

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starriest photo sets a recordMore than one billion stars in the Milky Way can be seen together in detail for the first time in a photograph captured by astronomers. Scientists from the U.K., Europe and Chile made the picture by combining thousands of infrared-light images from two telescopes in both of our planet’s hemispheres. mwn

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1 Junos honour Simple Plan: After fan mail from troubled youth who

found optimism in their music, Montreal’s Simple Plan created the Simple Plan Foundation six

years ago to help young people with social and mental-health problems. At the Junos this weekend in Ottawa, they’ll be recog-nized with the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award. Kudos.

2 Spread the Net: Historic downtown Peterborough, Ont., arts high school PCVS will be featured on CBC’s Rick Mercer Report Tuesday for winning the “Spread the

Net” fundraising student challenge, used to purchase mosquito nets to help prevent the spread of malaria in African countries. The win is bittersweet, as the local school board has decided to close the school. Learn more at peterboroughneedspcvs.com.

3 Queen wedding crasher: The Queen and Prince Philip stunned newlyweds John and Frances Canning, showing up unannounced just after their wedding in Manches-

ter to congratulate them. This was fantastic PR for Buckingham Palace and the Queen. Also, Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, you have been replaced if there is ever a Wedding Crashers sequel.

4 Band Wagon: A new Canadian YouTube series, Band Wagon, features up-and-coming musicians and bands like The Reason, The Balconies, Union City and Monster

Truck driving around in a car, singing songs. Great concept, perfect bandwagon to jump on.

5 James Cameron: The acclaimed director tweeted @Jim-Cameron on Sunday that he “Just arrived at the ocean’s deepest pt. Hitting bottom never felt so good. Can’t wait

to share what I’m seeing w/ you @DeepChallenge” He’s referring to a new deep-sea documentary based on his adventures in his one-man sub. Cameron reaches the world’s deepest point? I’m still trying to reach the deep end of my pool.

6 Quebec Nordiques: Quebec City is starting construction on an NHL-style arena this fall, paving the way for them to get an NHL team. The arena should be done by 2015.

There’s no guarantee they’ll get a team again but, fingers crossed, we’ll see a Nordiques team skating there soon. The Winnipeg Jets are back, why not the Nordiques? And then the Cleveland Barons.

7 Jian Ghomeshi: The host of CBC’s radio show Q said in a personal-finance Q&A that the best money-saving advice came from his parents: “Be patient. Try to avoid

spending money in spontaneous ways.” If only that simple advice was given to kids by every parent, we wouldn’t have quite as many Canadians in debt.

8 Pizza-fan applause: Things are so bad on the Toronto sports scene that the loudest applause is when the Rap-tors score 100 points at home games, giving everyone

a free slice of pizza. “It’s tough when your fans get more excited about a slice of pizza than us winning,” said Raptors coach Dwane Casey. Reality bites.

9 April Fool’s Day: Sunday is April 1. Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do. In other words, give’r, pranksters.

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the galactic centre of the Milky Way, the galaxy’s brightest section.Mike Read (WFaU), UkidSS/GPS and VVV

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Richard: Ned, as with all of Tarsem Singh Dhandwar’s films, Mirror Mirror is beauti-ful to look at. He certainly has an eye for set decoration. But in this case I wish they had spent the money on gag writers rather than lavish sets. I know it is supposed to be a family movie, but even five year olds deserve better than the old hat slapstick and word play on display here. Even the seven dwarfs on their spring-loaded stilts can’t put any bounce into this frac-tured fairy tale.

Ned: There are some really painful moments, agreed.

The odd mix of modern man-nerisms and speech with the period/fairy tale setting was supposed to seem hip and playful, I think, but it just fell flat. And speaking of flat —

and those Tarsem visuals — while the interiors of the pal-ace and the costumes looked amazing, the mysterious for-est where much of the action takes place felt so thin and set-like. I expect more from Tarsem in that department.

RC: I expected more from him period. The cast, how-ever, I did think was trying. Collins is picture perfect as Snow White — she bears an uncanny resemblance to the cartoon version — and Armie Hammer, should his career survive the dreadful dog im-pression he has to do here, has a future playing hand-some princes. Julia Roberts is the star attraction and while her comedic timing is in place, the lines she has to say don’t connect. What did you think of the cast?

NE: Hammer was defin-itely perfectly cast as Prince Charming, proving he can do just about anything — even

that cringe-inducing puppy scene — and still remain regal. Collins was perfectly fine, though her role con-sisted mostly of reacting to other characters and reiterat-ing the movie’s main themes. But Roberts lost me when she couldn’t keep up what I can only imagine is supposed to be a British accent for more than a couple of sentences. The performance was all over the place, and honestly I just wanted her to be meaner.

RC: Was she supposed to be doing an English accent? I ask rhetorically. Not since Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood has the Standard British accent taken such a mauling. What she does to the Queen’s English is evil enough, she doesn’t need to be any crueler to get the point across.

NE: Overall, this was an un-fortunate mix of risky and safe moves, with not enough of the former.

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Julia Roberts plays the evil step-queen to the beautiful Snow White (Lily Collins). After Snow’s father, the King (Sean Bean), mysteriously disappears, the Queen brings the country to the brink of bankruptcy and locks Snow away. But when the young princess attracts the attention of a young prince (Armie Hammer) the jealous Queen orders Snow murdered. Instead, she is set free in the forest where she is found by seven dwarfs.

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The brawny sequel to 2009’s Clash of the Titans, Wrath of the Titans is a kind of masterwork of monster mash pop art. This thing is just wall to wall creatures and the eye widening ways in which half god son of Zeus Perseus (Sam Worthington) destroys them is downright glorious. The cynic in you may start to question the plot and the pithy character motiva-tions, but for heavens sake, don’t; just allow your inner 12 year old to embrace it. chris alexander

Titanic 3D not a cash grab says Avatar star Worthington

Director James Cameron, who recently spent a few hours at the deepest point in the ocean in the Mariana Trench, is about to release his monster block-buster hit Titanic in 3D format. It was once the most success-ful movie of all time, raking in $1.84 billion in 1997, but was beat out by Cameron’s other

landmark 3D film Avatar with a whopping $2.77 billion. So, does this whole 3D conversion of the story of Jack and Rose start to smell a little like a lame money-grab?

Sam Worthington, star of Avatar, came to the defence of the director while promoting his own upcoming 3D film,

Wrath of the Titans: “Audiences are smart. They know when you just put the 3D on and it’s just to get money. They know it. And also the 3D can be very simpli-fied. This at least, I believe the guys pushed themselves a bit to try to push the 3D and I think audiences will notice that.” metro

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Get out your bottle of Sex Panther — Ron Burgundy is backThis is kind of a big deal: After years of trying to get it off the ground — including rumours of a musical — newscaster Ron Burgundy (Will Fer-rell) will finally be back telling San Diego to stay classy in the sequel to Anchorman: Anchor-man 2.

“I want to announce this to everyone in the Americas, to our friends in Spain, Turkey and the U.K., including England,” he said on Wednesday night’s Conan show, in full character.

“That as of 0900 Mountain time, Para-mount Pictures and myself, Ronald Joseph Aaron Burgundy, have come to terms on a se-quel to Anchorman.

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Jim’s dad. Eugene Levy dishes about his hookup in American ReunionOn almost not doing American PieWhen I first read the script, it scared me. I said, ‘No, I can’t do this. I can’t do this mov-ie.’ My manager at the time said I should go in and take a meeting, and I said, ‘Why? It’s too out there for me. This is a kids’ movie. Why would I want to be in a movie I wouldn’t go and see?’

That standard, apparently, doesn’t always applyI haven’t [seen the straight-to-DVD sequels]. I really haven’t.

He’s happy about his Amer-ican Reunion hookupIt almost seems like a no-

brainer in a way, Stifler’s Mom and Jim’s Dad, but I’ve always been married. The fact that Jim’s Dad is now a widower, I thought that was really interesting — shocking but interesting.NEd EhRbAR, MWN

Quoted

“When I first read the script (for American Pie) it scared me. I said, ‘No, I can’t do this. I can’t do this movie.”Eugene Levy on almost not taking the role of Jim’s dad in American Pie

Stifler’s mom. The original cougar loves the thrill of the huntShe had her own ideas for the latest filmI really liked the script, but I did fight with them. I did say that I thought I should sleep with Finch [played by Eddie Kaye Thomas] one last time before I do some other stuff. I did want that to happen, and I was very firm about it ... They said, ‘Jennifer, Stifler’s Mom needs to evolve and she needs to grow, and she can’t just be sleeping with this young boy occasionally.’ I don’t know how they convinced me, I’m very stubborn.

The young men in the cast have grown up quite a bitI’ve noticed that they’ve gotten way more in touch with their sexuality. All the boys must be going to some famous Holly-wood trainer.

She had a few more conquests in mind for Stifler’s MomI always pictured myself having sex with, like, Oz

[played by Chris Klein]. I thought that Stifler’s Mom would move on to some other kids. The only one I wouldn’t sleep with was Stifler [played by Seann William Scott], because they wouldn’t allow that. They wouldn’t go that far. But I wouldn’t mind that at all.NEd EhRbAR, MWN

Jennifer Coolidge has fun with her‘Stifler’s Mom’ character. handout

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The first thing you notice in Tara Reid’s hotel suite is a helium-filled mylar balloon emblazoned with her smil-ing face, bobbing near the ceiling behind the actress herself. It can be a little dis-tracting, even when talking to the woman herself, look-ing fresh and bright and happy to be working again with her American Pie crew. But getting from American Pie to American Reunion wasn’t the smoothest of roads.

The first thing I remember seeing you in was the Big Lebowski. What was it like at that point in your career, going from that into Urban Legend into American Pie?Well, the Coen Brothers are legendary. They’re iconic, they’re amazing. I loved working with them, and Jeff Bridges was amazing. That whole cast was fantastic. But then American Pie 1 was the Weitz brothers, so it was two again. And then this one, it’s two again [with co-directors Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg]. I love working with two directors.

Do you have a preference, would you say?It’s like if you have twins saying you like having twins

better than having one child. I’ve enjoyed all of the ex-periences I’ve been on, and I’ve been lucky and fortun-ate with the directors I’ve worked with.

Then you go on to things like Alone in the Dark, the reality series Taradise. What did that section of your career feel like?Everything is different chap-ters in your life, and I’ve been through many chapters and many experiences, and now I’m off to my next one.

But, you know, to be con-tinued.

So for that next chapter, that “to be continued,” what do you have in mind?I just want to keep going for-ward and keep making great films and keep growing.

Now you come back with American Reunion, getting the band together again. How do you approach that, picking up this character 13 years after the first one?It’s like it’s like riding a bike.

Once you get back on, boom, you never forget how to ride it. And I’ve been playing this girl and she’s been a part of my life for 13 years. I really like Vicky, I enjoy playing her. And I loved what Jon and Hayden did with her and where they took her. It really tied up from the first one to this one. It really connected the dots.

Are there any other past characters that you would like to revisit?Bunny. Let’s go back to Bunny. Let’s see what she’s up to now (laughs).

What do you think Bunny would be up to now?

Who knows? Who knows? She’d probably be on a Housewives of Beverly Hills, yeah (laughs).

Tara Reid’s bumpy ride to the ‘reunion’

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“I’ve been playing this girl and she’s been a part of my life for 13 years. I really like Vicky, I enjoy playing her. And I loved what Jon and Hayden did with her.” Tara Reid on her American Pie character Vicky.

Comeback. Actress best known as American Pie’s virginal Vicky talks about her highs and lows, and where Bunny might be now

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Mirror Mirror hits theatres this weekend, and aside that it stars Julia Roberts in what could be her campiest role ever, the big draw is the movie’s parade of elaborate costumes. But Roberts’s Evil Queen is hardly the first fairy tale character to work a fierce wardrobe.

We take a look at the best- and worst-dressed fairy tale characters of all time.

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snow White, version 1Jet-black hair, china doll features, rouge lips and puff ball sleeves — Disney’s original 1937 princess became the stuff of little girls’ obsessions and timeless Hallow-een costumes. Not to mention the lemon coloured bottom half to her iconic dress is so on trend right now. Very Louis Vuitton spring/summer 12, no?

Queen ravennaBecause 2012 is the year of Snow White, this list is not complete without Charlize Theron’s Queen Ravenna. Her villain in Snow White and the Huntsman — out later this summer and also starring Kristen Stew-art — stays immaculately turned out in all manner of intimidatingly grand gowns and chunky statement jewels. Plus, she has a feathered cape that turns into a flock of birds. Can’t get cooler than that.

the Mad hatterJohnny Depp’s take on the character in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland looked like an eccentric uncle on magic mushrooms with his floppy bow tie, disheveled Savile Row tailoring and slightly crazy look in the eyes. Either that, or a model straight out of a Vivienne Westwood show.

CinderellaBlame her for the modern-day obsession with makeovers. In an instant, the girl goes from house slave to flaxen-haired babe in a powder blue ball gown. The dress is fine, but it’s the shoes that have landed Cinderella on this list. Because before Christian Louboutin and Miuccia Prada went transparent and sparkly, Cinderella did it first.

AuroraIn part, you can blame the woman best known as Sleeping Beauty for the fact that manufacturers always use that same shade of cotton candy pink for girls’ toys. If Paris Hilton stepped back in time a good 50 years, she might be dressed like this — with a slightly shorter hem-line of course.

shrek Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But there’s no getting around that belt, stretched-to-bursting-point, and the muffing top bubbling above it. He’d probably be less cranky if he’d just buy a bigger belt.

the evil QueenOscar-winning costume designer Eiko Ishioka went big, and we mean really big, for Snow White’s latest outing in Mirror Mirror. Her costumes for Julia Roberts’s Evil Queen steal the show with their couture-like proportions, measuring more than six feet in cir-cumference and using a whopping 25 to 35 yards of fabric.

FezzikWho can forget André the Giant’s love-able character in The Princess Bride with those mutton chops and that frizzy fro. The man’s a giant cliché in his raggedy shirt, baggy pants, broad belt and boots — but hey, would you like him as much if he were a fashion plate?

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Ripa has a crush on CanadaKelly Ripa says Canadian fans of her morning talk show are “the most vocal” and full of team spirit, and she and execu-tive producer Michael Gelman “worship them for it.”

She’s hoping their Amer-ican viewers will pick up on that vibe and consider travel-

Well, look who’s in town. Kelly Ripa says Banff shoot of her show will be ‘a love note’ to our country

ling north when Live! with Kel-ly broadcasts from Banff, Alta., next week.

“I think our shows in Banff will sort of be a love note to that beautiful country and the pristine mountains and those panoramic vistas and all of the nature that is the unspoiled Canadian wilderness,” the bub-bly Ripa, 41, said in a recent conference call with reporters.

“That’s what I sort of love about Canada, is that it’s like this gorgeous, civilized coun-try with so many unspoiled, di-verse natural scenes. You have

mountains, you have water, you have islands — you have everything to offer.

Live! with Kelly is travelling to the picturesque resort com-munity for four shows that will air April 2 to April 5 on CTV, at 9 a.m. ET. The broad-casts will originate from the 959-seat Eric Harvie Theatre at The Banff Centre arts school.

Executive producer Michael Gelman said Banff first showed an interest in having the show travel there after the syndicat-ed program shot in Prince Ed-ward Island in July 2010. Live!

has also taped twice in Niagara Falls.

Banff was a great fit be-cause he’d been wanting to do another taping in Canada and he longed for a “winter weath-

er remote.”Travel Alberta has revealed

it set aside $1.5 million to en-sure the show would broadcast four shows from Banff. The canadian press

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The Word

Lindsay Lohan is back on the streets

For the first time in recent history, Lindsay Lohan is not on probation, in jail, or fall-ing out of a car.

At a hearing Thursday afternoon, Judge Stephanie Sautner — who has, historic-ally, not been a fan of Lohan or her courtroom circus — ended the actress’ formal probation after agreeing that her community service was successfully completed.In return, Lohan is required to obey all laws — even the annoying ones that we non-famous people abide by — for two-and-a-half years.

“I know it’s kinda hard when people are following you all over the place, but that’s the life you chose,” said Sautner. “I’m not going to give a lecture because you know what you need to do. You need to live your life in a more mature way. Stop the nightclubbing and focus on your work.”

Or focus on a Magic Eye — anything should do at this point, Linds. We’re proud of you, and we’re cancelling your standing Monday gos-sip reservation.

Aiken admits to surgeryNo stranger to coming clean about things, Clay Aiken has revealed that he’s had some work done to his face.

“I had a surgery on my jaw for a TMJ thing, and I had them suck the fat out of my chin while they were

in there,” Clay told Bravo’s Andy Cohen during an interview.

“I said, ‘You know what, while I’m already down, go ahead and take the vacuum in there and suck the fat out of my chin.’”

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Megan likes being a Fox

Don’t hate Megan Fox be-cause she’s beautiful. The Friends with Kids star feels right at home with her striking looks.

“I live well with my image. I cannot complain. I would not trade my place with an unattractive girl,” she tells French magazine Jalouse.

Of course, Fox might not be aware of exactly how the rest of the world sees her: “I hate taking pictures,” she says. “I never look at them, otherwise I would have to change everything. I prefer not to see any and trust the photographer, who knows his job.”

METRO DISHOUR TAKE ON THE WORLD OF CELEBRITIES

Did Russell Brand go back to his cheating ways while

married to Katy Perry? It’s unclear what caused the sudden split between Katy Perry and Russell Brand, but Perry’s pals apparently think the British comedian was being unfaithful.

One of her friends, actor Jonathan Schaech, posted on Twitter, “Cheating is easy, try doing something challenging and be faith-ful,” and the post was re-tweeted by another friend of Perry, jewelry designer Markus Molinari, who added his own comment:

“Seeee Russell!” Whatever the case may

be, Perry was pretty con-vinced last year that Brand would be faithful: “He’s made no secret of what his life was like before me, but that’s then and this is the future,” she told Radar Online.

“He’s cheated in the past but he knows how good he has it with me and I know he’d never do anything to jeopardize that. I trust him 100 per cent.”

Where’s Lohan to next?

• Canada, it seems. Her upcoming Elizabeth Tay-lor movie is shooting in Toronto, and she’s been granted a Canadian work permit, reports TMZ.

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Peter Facinelli

Twilight star is now single, ladies

Twilight star Peter Facinelli officially filed for divorce from Jennie Garth this week, citing “irreconcilable differences,” according to People magazine.

“I was very resistant. I didn’t want it to happen. It took me some time to come to peace with it,” Garth tells the magazine about the divorce.

“I’ve gone though my darkest parts and I’m com-ing out of it. I’m OK. I don’t know what the future holds, but then I’ve never been a planner. And maybe that’s a good thing.”

Coincidentally, the two have a reality TV show debuting next month, and their divorce will reportedly be a major plot point.

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This recipe makes 24 crostini. EMILY RICHARDS

Taste of entertaining gets more appealing

Deep, earthy green spinach with lots of garlic sits atop a toasted baguette slice for the perfect contrast of crunch and softness in these Wilted Spinach and Garlic Crostini appetizers.

For an added flavour hit,

place a shaving of aged Man-chego cheese on top of the spinach just before serving.

You can also make the crostini ahead of time and keep on hand for a quick appetizer accom-paniment for those times when unexpected guests drop by.

1. Brush the baguette slices with some of the extra vir-gin olive oil and place them on large baking sheet. Toast the baguette slices in a 425 F (220 C) oven for about 8 min-utes or until they are golden brown. Sprinkle with salt and let cool.

2. Cook the spinach, one bag at a time, in large nonstick skillet over medium high heat, stirring often, for about

5 minutes or until wilted. Place in colander and drain well. Repeat this step with the remaining bag. Set aside.

3. Heat the remaining olive oil in skillet over medium heat. Cook the garlic, ancho-vies and hot pepper flakes for about 2 minutes, or until turning they are golden.

4. Add the spinach and toss it to coat with olive oil and gar-lic sauce. Cook everything for

about 2 minutes or until it is all well coated and warmed. Remove the mixture from heat and season to taste with salt.

4. Divide the mixture among the toasted baguette slices and serve.

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Wilted Spinach and Garlic Crostini. These little bites will impress guests with their contrasting textures of crunch and softness

Liquid Assets

A magical combo that sparkles

Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful, hate me because at this moment I’m sitting at an outdoor resto in Ver-ona Italy, enjoying a Spritz.

It’s a magical combina-tion of the Italian aperitif Aperol ($21.99 - $25.98) with an equal part of Prosecco, a dash of sparkling water and a garnishing slice of orange.

Prosecco aficionados may cringe, but the refresh-ing flavour mix screams spring and is an amazing ap-petite enhancer, which ex-plains why everyone in the Vento region loves a glass before dinner.

Originating in Veneto, prosecco is a lightly spark-ling white wine with a char-acteristically dry personality that is effervescent without going full blown bubbly.Made with the glera grape variety, it’s produced using the Charmat method — which means its sparkle comes from a second fer-mentation in a steel tank rather than inside the bottle like its competitors from Champagne.

While selection varies across the country, this is one wine style with which it’s hard to find a bad example. Piera Martellozzo’s Blu Giovello Prosecco ($14.95 - $16.99) is a bone dry version with subtle tropical fruit flavours that make it ideal for hard to match menus like sushi and Thai. PRICES REFLECT THE RANGE ACROSS THE COUNTRY. SOME PRODUCTS MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE IN ALL PROVINCES.

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DINNER EXPRESSEmily [email protected]

Ingredients

• Half French baguette, sliced• 1/3 cup (75 mL) extra virginolive oil• Sea salt• 6 cloves garlic, minced

• 2 anchovies, minced• 1/2 tsp (2 mL) hot pepperflakes• 2 bags (10 oz/300 g each)baby spinach, rinsed

Bake-Off

Pumpkin Ravioli wins

Pumpkin Ravioli with Salted Caramel Whipped Cream is the winning dish of the 2012 Pills-

bury Bake-Off Contest.

TV host Martha Stewart an-nounced on her show that Chris-tina Verrelli, of Devon, Pa., was the winner. Verelli wins $1 mil-lion and $10,000 worth of GE

kitchen appliances.

Made with Pillsbury Crescent dough sheets, the recipe can be

found on Pillsbury’s website, pillsbury.com, along with all the other finalists. All entries in the contest were required to include

at least one eligible Pillsbury product.

Three category winners each re-ceive $5,000 cash and $3,000 in

appliances. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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1. In pot of boiling water, cook noodles for about 5 min-utes; drain well.

2. In large non-stick skillet heat oil over medium-high heat. Brown tofu and transfer to a plate. Add turkey to skillet and cook for about 2 minutes per side. Transfer to plate. Add red pepper, broccoli, bok choy, garlic, red pepper flakes and broth to skillet. Cover and cook for about 3 minutes.

3. Whisk together peanut butter, rice vinegar and soy sauce. Add turkey, tofu and noodles to vegetables. Stir in peanut butter mixture and cook, stirring until noodles are well coated.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Ingredients

• 250 g (8 oz) soba noodles • 30 ml (2 tbsp) vegetable oil • 1 pkg (350 g) extra firm tofu, patted dry and cut into cubes • 250 g (1/2 lb) boneless, skin-less turkey breast, thinly sliced • 1 red bell pepper, sliced • 1 head broccoli, cut into florets • 1 head bok choy, sliced • 4 cloves garlic, minced • 2 ml (1/2 tsp) crushed red pepper flakes • 250 ml (1 cup) turkey or chicken broth • 50 ml (1/4 cup) smooth pea-nut butter • 30 ml (2 tbsp) rice vinegar • 30 ml (2 tbsp) soy sauce • Fresh peanuts, for garnish

Turkey with Soba. Try this tasty nutritional powerhouse for lunch

The good old Ham & Cheese sandwich gets a bistro feel

This recipe serves six. The Canadian press h/o

Chef Melissa Craig of the Bearfoot Bistro in Whistler, B.C., created this delicious grilled cheese sandwich for a recent competition in To-ronto.

“My favourite comfort food of all time is grilled cheese,” she says. “I like a simple grilled cheese with ketchup. However, I decid-ed to put a twist and make a tomato tapenade with some spicy arugula for a meal or a snack any time of the day

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On the web

Ontario’s Glenn Howard says his rink is “still riding a high”

after winning the Brier on March 12. He’ll try to carry that positive energy to the international stage as the

world curling championships get underway this weekend

in Switzerland. Scan the code for the story.

Quoted

“I had plenty of opportunities to do things with diff er-ent teams, and I’ve

turned them all down. But this one is special. This guy is like family to me. And if I could help

him, I would.”Retired coach Bill Parcells to the

New York Daily News on the possi-bility of taking over as New Orleans

head coach for the 2012 season. Parcells’ friend and protegé Sean

Payton has been suspended for the season for allowing player bounties

to take place as Saints coach. The Saints had yet to make a decision

Thursday with Payton’s suspension slated to begin Sunday.

Montreal Canadiens owner Geoff Molson speaks to reporters Thursday after announcing general manager Pierre Gauthier has been relieved of his duties. RYAN REMIORZ/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Habs � re GM a� er dismal seasonThe struggling Montreal Cana-diens have fired general man-ager Pierre Gauthier, saying the direction of the storied fran-chise had to change.

The NHL team announced the Gauthier firing first in a terse statement, ahead of a news conference with owner Geoff Molson.

Gainey, whom Gauthier suc-ceeded as GM, is also leaving his role as a team adviser, Mol-son told the news conference. Gainey and Gauthier are long-time friends.

Serge Savard, another Habs

icon, will serve as an adviser to Molson in the search for a new GM.

Molson praised the Cana-diens’ fans and spoke about restoring the team to its former glory, pointing to a stockpile of draft picks and promises of ac-quiring new talent.

“We need to remember that our fans want us to win, per-iod,” Molson said. “Our organ-izational culture is to support and adopt this passion for vic-tory. Nothing else matters.”

Gauthier paid the price for

a 29-34-14 season that has the Habs languishing in the Eastern Conference basement.

A string of moves this sea-son did not revive the battered Canadiens.

Gauthier fired assistant coach Perry Pearn and then head coach Jacques Martin in mid-December, only to find himself in even hotter water for appointing the unilingual Randy Cunneyworth as interim coach.

With protests from some Quebec nationalist groups and

an ongoing controversy in the media, Gauthier elected to apologize and promise there will be a French-speaking coach behind the bench next season.

The Habs have reeled with injuries and sub-par perform-ances. In February, Molson resorted to Twitter to deny ru-mours during the season that Gauthier too had been axed.

“Rumours of Pierre Gauthi-er’s firing are false,” he tweeted.

Rumours had been swirling in local media and online that Gauthier was no longer calling the shots.

Gauthier was named GM and executive vice-president in February 2010, taking over from Gainey. He joined the or-ganization in July 2003 when he was appointed director of professional scouting. THE CANADIAN PRESS

New direction. Team also fires team adviser, and franchise icon, Bob Gainey

Tennis

Overruling propels Sharapova to semifi nal winMaria Sharapova benefit-ed from a chair umpire’s disputed overrule on the final point in edging Caroline Wozniacki 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 in the Sony Erics-son Open semifinals on Thursday.

At 40-30 in the final game, Sharapova hit a second serve that the linesman called long, which would have been a double fault, but the um-pire immediately reversed the ruling and ordered the point replayed. The call couldn’t be reviewed because Wozniacki had no challenges left, though TV replays showed the umpire was correct to overrule.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CFL

Argos announce trio of signingsFormer NFL wide receiver Samie Parker highlighted a trio of new signings the Toronto Argonauts an-nounced on Thursday.

Parker played 47 regular season games over four years in the NFL with the Kansas City Chiefs and finished with 110 catches for 1,529 yards and seven touchdowns.

The Argos also signed quarterback Trevor Harris and safety Matt Estrada.THE CANADIAN PRESS

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“Everyone in this organization, including our play-ers, expected better.”Owner Geoff Molson, who said the Canadiens’ standard is to reach the top, not just make the playoff s

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Randy, a native of Stephenville, Newfoundland gives a shout out to his fellow Newfoundlanders: “We invite you to our pub to enjoy east coast style hospitality in the east end. You may even hear a little Harry Hibbs on the sound system.” Non-Newfoundlanders need not worry – a warm welcome is extended to all: “If you’ve ever been to Newfoundland or thought of going there or know somebody from there.” Randy laughs, “We’ll make this easy.”

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Canadians Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are back on top of the ice-dancing world.

The Olympic champions reclaimed their world title on Thursday in Nice, France, edg-ing American rivals and de-fending champions Meryl Davis and Charlie White.

Skating their free dance to George Gershwin’s Funny Face, Virtue and Moir finished the free dance with 182.65 points. The duo won the world crown in 2010 but finished second last year in a season that saw the two sidelined for several months after Virtue had sur-gery on her legs.

“We definitely had to fight a little more for the program than maybe our fairy-tale per-formance would have been, but I guess that’s why you train,” Moir said. “This season, we’re really appreciating having the training under our belts and to perform like that, even when it isn’t a perfect skate — Tessa has convinced me (it wasn’t per-fect) because she’s a perfection-ist, but I thought it was pretty good.

“Overall, we’re happy, we had a great competition and we can’t be too upset.”

Virtue, from London, and Moir, from Ilderton, led after Wednesday’s short program.

Davis and White — Virtue and Moir’s training partners who were second after the

short dance — finished with 178.62 points.

“The feeling is definitely a little bit different than it was last year. Last year, we felt a lot of pressure to make history with the opportunity to be-

come the first American world ice-dance champions,” Davis said. “This year, coming in, we wanted to put down two really great performances and make a statement, and I think we did that.”

Davis and White kept the pressure on with an inspira-tional free skate to Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus that had the crowd on its feet at the Palais des Expositions in Nice.

Nathalie Pechalat and Fa-bian Bourzat of France were third with 173.18 points. The Canadian press

Moir, Virtue adorned with gold once againIce dancing. Local duo ‘fight’ through free dance to claim another world championship

Sports in pictures

1MLB. A’s get even with MarinersIchiro Suzuki came up empty in the finale of a two-

game trip to Tokyo, and so did the Seattle Mariners.The Japanese star went 0-for-4 in the Mariners’ 4-1 loss to the Oakland Athletics on Thursday night that left them with a season-opening split. The assoCiaTed press

2MLB. Young Gose helps Blue Jays steal win from Red Sox

Anthony Gose stole second, third and home to score the tiebreaking run in the eighth inning, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Boston Red Sox 3-2 Thursday to extend their spring-training winning streak to 10. The assoCiaTed press

3CFL. Flames assume majority ownership of Stampeders

The Calgary Flames are becoming the majority owners of the CFL’s Stampeders. The NHL club has had a five per cent share for the past few seasons. Stamps chairman John Forzani, left, called the move a “positive step” during a press conference with Flames president Ken King. The Canadian press

1

3Tessa Virtue, of London, and Scott Moir, of Ilderton, perform on Thursday in Nice, France. Francois Mori/the associated press

2

By the numbers

1stKaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje finished fourth. It’s the first time Canada has had two ice-dance teams finish in the top four.

Women’s singles

Alena Leonova of Russia set the pace Thursday while Canada’s Amelie Lacoste was left hoping she’s just close enough to nab a spot in the top 10.

• The21-year-oldLeonovascored64.61 to take the lead heading

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• Lacoste,Canada’sloneentryintheevent,was 13th with a score of 49.37. A top-10 finish would give Canada two women’s entries in next year’s worlds here in London.

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Crews install the court for the NCAA Final Four in New Orleans. Chris GranGer/The Times-PiCayune/The assoCiaTed Press file

Big schools bring big issues to Final Four

Looking for those charming underdog stories? Go find the DVD from last year.

This year’s Final Four boasts an ensemble of big-name schools, all saddled with their typically big-time issues — a re-minder that everything in col-lege sports is not as pure as the NCAA would like us to believe.

In the national semifinals Saturday, Kentucky plays Louis-ville and Ohio State meets Kan-sas. All the schools have made headlines for a variety of off-the-court reasons over the last several months, including the

proliferation of one-and-done players, stories about coaches in courtrooms, and a handful of financial misdeeds involving recruits, players, coaches and even ticket managers.

While there are no little vs. big stories this year, teams and coaches got everyone thinking about basketball instead of the underside of a business driven by a $10.8-billion US TV con-tract.

For his part, Kentucky coach John Calipari is perfecting the art of luring a player for one, maybe two seasons then saying a guilt-free goodbye. But it’s the NBA that put in the rule stating players must be 19 before they can enter the draft. What’s a coach to do?

“I think they trust that when the year is out, they’re going to get the right infor-

mation and be treated fairly,” Calipari said. “Historically, we don’t convince kids to stay who should leave. They are going to get the information, and they know that. They are just going to play basketball.”

The NCAA rules police have spent plenty of time visiting Ohio State’s athletic department over the last sev-eral years. First, there was the firing of coach Jim O’Brien, who was found to have given money to a recruit, then later sued the school for wrongful termination when he got the axe before it had been officially determined he’d done anything wrong. Thad Matta cleaned up that mess and has led the Buck-eyes to the Final Four twice in the last seven years.

This week is supposed to be a celebration of college sports. Yet it’s hard not to ignore some tidbits that came up on the road to the Final Four:

— This year’s Final Four coaches are making between $2.5 and $3.8 million this sea-son and will earn six-figure bo-nuses if they win the title.

— The NCAA didn’t get involved, but Louisville coach

Rick Pitino’s name was trend-ing for months while details of his extramarital affair and the ensuing extortion trial were aired out in public.

And of course Kansas is not immune to corruption. Last May, five athletic department employees and consultants got between 37 and 57 months prison time for unlawfully selling football and basketball season tickets to ticket brokers and others, then pocketing the money. the associated press

NCAA. College basketball controversy bubbles under the surface in New Orleans

Quoted

“I’d prefer to have a different model ... but I don’t think we should blow one-and-done out of propor-tion and suggest this is undermining the educa-tional mission of the NCAA.”NCAA president Mark Emmert on athletes leaving college after one year.

Bluegrass showdown

The Kentucky-Louisville story line is the best thing going this week in New Orleans, for what coach John Calipari predicts will be an epic Final Four.

• Jared Sullinger (Ohio State), Thomas Robinson (Kansas) and Anthony Davis (Kentucky) are first-team AP All-Amer-icans. Those three teams all have other players who look very much like NBA material in the near future.

Kentucky freshman Kyle Wiltjer, son of former Canadian national team member Greg Wiltjer, remains the only Can-adian left in the Final Four. But that doesn’t mean a few draft-eligible Canadians didn’t make their mark. A look at a few:

Andrew Nicholson, St. Bonaventure: The senior power forward turned some heads with his play in the At-lantic 10 conference tourna-ment, and in the one game the Bonnies played in March Mad-ness. Probably did enough to sneak into the end of the first

round of the draft heading into the workout season.

Kris Joseph, Syracuse:

A decidedly underwhelming March Madness didn’t move the senior big man up, that’s for sure. Scouts still contend he’ll be a late first-round pick at best, more likely in the second round.

Robert Sacre, Gonzaga: Another senior big man, he wasn’t on anyone’s draft radar before the tournament and really isn’t today. However, he has been chosen to play in a senior all-star game at the Final Four which will give him a shot to attract some attention.Not quite ready:

Myck Kabongo, Texas: Freshman point guard wisely decided on at least another year with the Longhorns.

Brady Heslip, Baylor: Had one magical night, but his game needs much more polish.

Kevin Pangos, Gonzaga: Another young guard with promise, but not nearly enough to take the next step yet. torstar News service

Ncaa. how canucks affected their NBa draft potential during March Madness

Andrew Nicholson, left, of St. Bonaventures guards the ball while playing Florida State on earlier in March. Jamie squire/GeTTy imaGes file

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Aries | March 21 - April 20. You need to make changes and spend less time worrying what other people think of you. Most think highly of you anyway.

Taurus | April 21 - May 21. You will come out of your shell to-day and make a good impression on everyone you meet.

Gemini | May 22 - June 20. This is an excellent time for new alliances and new beginnings. Change is good for you. The world will smile on you so be yourself.

Cancer | June 21 - July 22. If something you are working on seems to be taking up all of your time, that’s a sign you should be working on other things.

Leo | July 23 - Aug. 22. A lot of things are happening over which you have no control. Don’t worry. You won’t sink without trace.

Virgo | Aug. 23 - Sept. 22. Someone may think they’ve forced you into a corner but they’re mad if they think you will change.

Libra | Sept. 23 - Oct. 22. You will find it easier to get along with people you work with on a daily basis, and that’s good because you are going to need allies over the next few weeks.

Scorpio | Oct. 23 - Nov. 21. Go all out over the next few days to start something new, some-thing creative, something that you will be remembered for.

Sagittarius | Nov. 22 - Dec. 21. Your main need now is to find a space you can call your own. You deserve some peace and quiet for a change.

Capricorn | Dec. 22 - Jan 20. If you have not planned any-thing for the next couple of days then get planning now. Travel and social plans are well starred now.

Aquarius | Jan. 21 - Feb 18. You’ll have to make some tough decisions early next week concern-ing what you own, what you earn.

Pisces | Feb. 19 - March 20. Make it a priority to have as much fun as possible over the next 24 hours. Get the most out of life. SALLY BROMPTON

Klavika CH (Bold Condensed, Regular Condensed; True Type)

General Motors

CHV LOOK AGAIN

CHV 12030

Rodrigues, Pedro (TOR-MCL) Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black

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Manny Augusto

100%

SAFETY: None TRIM: 10” x 12.5” Bleed: None10” x 12.5”

SPEC ORIGINALLY GENERATED: by Operator PAGE: 1

Unflattened

GEN12616-LookAgain Cruze 10x12.5 013.indd

T:10”T:12.5”

Madrid, Spain – Fit in anywhere around the globe with the 2012 Chevrolet Cruze. With best-in-class highway fuel efficiency and best-in-class safety there’ll be no stone lef t untouched.

SPOT THE 10 DIFFERENCES IN THESE TWO IMAGES. LOOK AGAIN1. Removed wall fixture from left side of image 2. Changed colour of windowsill ledge left of the 2012 Chevrolet Cruze 3. Changed garage door foundation from stone to match the building 4. Removed scooter from behind the 2012 Chevrolet Cruze 5. Removed plant from right of the 2012 Chevrolet Cruze 6. Removed step from right side of image 7. Removed side ledge from right side of image 8. Removed curb from right of image 9. Removed second manhole cover from bottom of image 10. Changed licence plate numbers from “0434” to “3434”

CRUZE

CRUZ2012 CHEVROLET

CRUZE

CRUZ2012 CHEVROLET

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